| 12. feb. 1809 - 15. apr. 1865 |
(-42.2) - 14.0 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 12. feb. 1809 - 19. apr. 1882 |
(-42.2) - 31.1 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 7. feb. 1812 - 9. jun. 1870 |
(-39.2) - 19.2 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 8. jun. 1815 - 24. aug. 1866 |
(-35.8) - 15.4 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
| 13. dec. 1816 - 6. dec. 1892 |
(-34.3) - 41.7 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30. dec. 1819 - 20. sep. 1890 |
(-31.3) - 39.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15. dec. 1832 - 27. dec. 1923 |
(-18.3) - 72.8 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17. mar. 1834 - 6. mar. 1900 |
(-17.1) - 49.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20. jun. 1837 - 22. jan. 1901 |
(-13.8) - 49.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8. jul. 1838 - 8. mar. 1917 |
(-12.7) - 66.0 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11. dec. 1843 - 27. maj 1910 |
(-7.3) - 59.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25. nov. 1844 - 4. apr. 1929 |
(-6.4) - 78.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11. feb. 1847 - 18. okt. 1931 |
(-4.1) - 80.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3. mar. 1847 - 1. aug. 1922 |
(-4.1) - 71.4 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 27. dec. 1847 - 29. aug. 1877 |
(-3.3) - 26.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 17. mar. 1849 - 23. nov. 1890 |
(-2.0) - 39.7 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 9. jul. 1850 - 4. mar. 1853 |
(-0.7) - 1.9 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
0.2 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
| 1851 |
0.2 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
0.2 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 2. dec. 1852 - 4. sep. 1870 |
1.7 - 19.4 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4. mar. 1853 - 4. mar. 1857 |
1.9 - 5.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
2.2 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6. maj 1856 - 23. sep. 1939 |
5.1 - 88.5 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1857 - 4. mar. 1861 |
5.9 - 9.9 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 28. maj 1857 - 12. apr. 1858 |
6.2 - 7.0 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
| 1859 |
8.2 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4. mar. 1861 - 15. apr. 1865 |
9.9 - 14.0 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. mar. 1861 |
10.0 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 12. apr. 1861 - 9. apr. 1865 |
10.0 - 14.0 |
American Civil War |
USA |
| 23. sep. 1861 - 12. mar. 1942 |
10.5 - 91.0 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30. jul. 1863 - 7. apr. 1947 |
12.3 - 96.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16. okt. 1863 - 17. mar. 1937 |
12.5 - 86.0 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15. apr. 1865 - 4. mar. 1869 |
14.0 - 17.9 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9. jun. 1866 - 26. jul. 1866 |
15.2 - 15.3 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10. mar. 1867 |
15.9 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
17.3 - 27.3 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1869 - 4. mar. 1877 |
17.9 - 25.9 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5. sep. 1869 - 1884 |
18.4 - 33.3 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22. apr. 1870 - 21. jan. 1924 |
19.1 - 72.8 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
19.3 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19. jul. 1870 - 10. maj 1871 |
19.3 - 20.1 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18. jan. 1871 - 9. mar. 1888 |
19.8 - 37.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4. maj 1871 - 20. mar. 1890 |
20.1 - 39.0 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 9. nov. 1871 |
20.6 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30. nov. 1874 - 24. jan. 1965 |
23.7 - 113.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5. jan. 1876 - 19. apr. 1967 |
24.8 - 116.1 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1877 - 4. mar. 1881 |
25.9 - 29.9 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
27.3 - 30.3 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
27.3 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31. dec. 1878 |
27.8 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14. mar. 1879 - 18. apr. 1955 |
28.0 - 104.1 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
28.3 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
28.3 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
28.3 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 10. okt. 1880 - 25. jul. 1887 |
29.5 - 36.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20. dec. 1880 - 23. mar. 1881 |
29.7 - 30.0 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1881 - 19. sep. 1881 |
29.9 - 30.5 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. aug. 1881 - 11. mar. 1955 |
30.4 - 104.0 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19. sep. 1881 - 4. mar. 1885 |
30.5 - 33.9 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
31.3 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
31.3 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21. jan. 1884 - 12. dec. 1963 |
32.8 - 112.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
33.3 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15. nov. 1884 - 26. feb. 1885 |
33.6 - 33.9 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4. mar. 1885 - 4. mar. 1889 |
33.9 - 37.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
35.3 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
35.3 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28. okt. 1886 |
35.6 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
36.3 - 38.3 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
36.3 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9. mar. 1888 - 15. jun. 1888 |
37.0 - 37.2 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15. jun. 1888 - 9. nov. 1918 |
37.2 - 67.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
37.3 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1889 - 4. mar. 1893 |
37.9 - 41.9 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7. apr. 1889 - 2. sep. 1898 |
38.0 - 47.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20. apr. 1889 - 30. apr. 1945 |
38.1 - 94.1 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
39.3 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
39.3 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14. okt. 1890 - 28. mar. 1969 |
39.6 - 118.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23. nov. 1890 - 4. sep. 1948 |
39.7 - 97.5 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4. mar. 1893 - 4. mar. 1897 |
41.9 - 46.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. apr. 1893 |
42.0 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
45.3 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
45.3 - 46.3 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1897 - 14. sep. 1901 |
46.0 - 50.5 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. sep. 1898 - 10. okt. 1901 |
47.5 - 50.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11. okt. 1899 - 31. maj 1902 |
48.6 - 51.2 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8. sep. 1900 |
49.5 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22. jan. 1901 - 6. maj 1910 |
49.8 - 59.1 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14. sep. 1901 - 4. mar. 1909 |
50.5 - 58.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. okt. 1901 - 19. nov. 1918 |
50.6 - 67.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19. okt. 1901 |
50.6 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5. dec. 1901 - 15. dec. 1966 |
50.7 - 115.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16. jun. 1903 |
52.2 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16. dec. 1903 |
52.7 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
53.3 - 57.3 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18. apr. 1906 |
55.1 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
56.3 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16. sep. 1908 |
57.5 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27. sep. 1908 |
57.5 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1909 - 4. mar. 1913 |
58.0 - 62.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
58.3 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6. maj 1910 - 20. jan. 1936 |
59.1 - 84.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30. maj 1911 |
60.2 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30. maj 1911 |
60.2 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23. okt. 1911 |
60.6 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4. mar. 1913 - 4. mar. 1921 |
62.0 - 70.0 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14. jun. 1914 - 15. jun. 1914 |
63.2 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28. jun. 1914 - 11. nov. 1918 |
63.3 - 67.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6. aug. 1914 - 25. nov. 1918 |
63.4 - 67.7 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13. sep. 1914 - 9. jul. 1915 |
63.5 - 64.3 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. okt. 1914 - 24. okt. 1914 |
63.6 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24. apr. 1916 - 30. apr. 1916 |
65.1 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
65.3 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8. mar. 1917 - 12. mar. 1917 |
66.0 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29. maj 1917 - 22. nov. 1963 |
66.2 - 112.7 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
66.3 - 72.3 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7. nov. 1917 |
66.6 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9. nov. 1918 |
67.6 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23. nov. 1918 - 14. maj 1945 |
67.7 - 94.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11. feb. 1919 - 28. feb. 1925 |
67.9 - 74.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13. feb. 1919 - 20. jun. 1919 |
67.9 - 68.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6. maj 1919 - 8. aug. 1919 |
68.1 - 68.4 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
68.3 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11. aug. 1919 |
68.4 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10. sep. 1919 |
68.5 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4. mar. 1921 - 2. aug. 1923 |
70.0 - 72.4 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. dec. 1921 |
70.7 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28. okt. 1922 |
71.6 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2. aug. 1923 - 4. mar. 1929 |
72.4 - 78.0 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. aug. 1923 - 23. nov. 1923 |
72.4 - 72.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13. sep. 1923 |
72.5 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12. maj 1925 - 2. aug. 1934 |
74.2 - 83.4 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14. jun. 1928 - 9. okt. 1967 |
77.2 - 116.6 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
77.3 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15. jan. 1929 - 4. apr. 1968 |
77.8 - 117.1 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1929 - 4. mar. 1933 |
78.0 - 82.0 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25. okt. 1929 |
78.6 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22. jan. 1930 - 1. maj 1931 |
78.9 - 80.1 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30. mar. 1930 - 30. maj 1932 |
79.0 - 81.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5. aug. 1930 - 25. aug. 2012 |
79.4 - 161.5 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14. apr. 1931 |
80.1 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
80.3 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11. dec. 1931 |
80.7 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1. jun. 1932 - 17. nov. 1932 |
81.2 - 81.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3. dec. 1932 - 28. jan. 1933 |
81.7 - 81.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30. jan. 1933 - 30. apr. 1945 |
81.9 - 94.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28. feb. 1933 - 23. mar. 1933 |
82.0 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4. mar. 1933 - 12. apr. 1945 |
82.0 - 94.1 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
84.3 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20. jan. 1936 - 11. dec. 1936 |
84.9 - 85.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
85.7 - 100.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
85.7 - 100.9 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6. maj 1937 |
86.1 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
86.3 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27. aug. 1939 |
88.5 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1. sep. 1939 - 2. sep. 1945 |
88.5 - 94.5 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. maj 1940 |
89.2 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7. dec. 1941 |
90.7 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12. apr. 1945 - 20. jan. 1953 |
94.1 - 101.9 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25. apr. 1945 |
94.1 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8. maj 1945 |
94.2 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21. maj 1945 - 4. apr. 1951 |
94.2 - 100.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6. aug. 1945 - 9. aug. 1945 |
94.4 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14. okt. 1946 |
95.6 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14. okt. 1947 |
96.6 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4. sep. 1948 - 30. apr. 1980 |
97.5 - 129.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21. dec. 1948 |
97.8 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23. maj 1949 |
98.2 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
98.3 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15. sep. 1949 - 16. okt. 1963 |
98.5 - 112.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7. okt. 1949 |
98.6 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11. okt. 1949 - 7. sep. 1960 |
98.6 - 109.5 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17. jun. 1950 |
99.3 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
99.3 - 102.3 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Andreas Elias H L Lynge
Ane Lynge
Birth
